She examined a used heart & clocked its serviceable beats, it could tell yes from no reliably enough for the time being & could register another mother’s neighborly nod, the do drop by I’d love some & the coos to strange irritable babies in passing through one’s body & days. Two others eyed her tilting […]
Martha Zweig
Martha Zweig’s five, full-length poetry collections include Get Lost, Dream Horse Press; Monkey Lightning, Tupelo, What Kind and Vinegar Bone, both from Wesleyan University Press, and Snails of the Apocalypse, forthcoming October 2026 from River River Press. Her chapbooks are Powers, Stinehour Press, Vermont Council on the Arts, and A Skirmish of Harks, Jacar e-book. Zweig’s recognitions include Hopwood Awards, a Whiting Award, Pushcart and Best-of-the-Net nominations, and a Warren Wilson MFA. She lives in Vermont where she workedx ten years as an advocate for seniors, after ten years handling garments in a pajama factory where she served a term as ILGWU shop chair.